Many people ask me what I do to survive while I work for a ministry/nonprofit organization. Well, mainly, I do design work – brochures, posters, flyers, handbooks and the like, and occasional websites… but one of the more exciting things I do is flooplans. Some are confused by this, so in an effort to help explain, here some exciting pictures of the process of creating a floorplan graphic for insertion into the brochures. (This is the fun part that my friend Dave Carey does).
Step one: Open the DWG file in Adobe Illustrator. It usually looks like crap – all crazy colors and completely out of scale. The first thing I do is convert it to CMYK (for the printing process) and scale it to the correct size determined by Dave.
Step two: I change all the colorful lines to black and at a consistent line weight. I also make sure all the text is the same size and font and adjust it so it will be readable.
Step three: I put a white layer beneath it, then I colorize it – the overhead compartments are one color, linoleum another color and the carpeting a third color. Then I save it as an EPS file and call it done.
It sounds pretty easy, and it is pretty mindless, but it does take some time because it is tedious. I did a total of 106 this weekend. So, when you message or call me and I say I am doing floorplans… now you can understand what that means.
I’m very very very grateful you do these floorplans. I do not factor in the time to do them in-house. I always hope that you can. Thanks! They’re awesome.
yay for floorplans. i have some better work for you. “cosmonaut t-shirts”. ask me about it later.
Attention to detail is the difference between “pleasing” and crap. +10 points.
Yeah, speaking of floorplans… do you have any Sandpiper 07 plans for me? 🙂